Display device.



D. F. THOMSON.

DISPLAY DEVICE. APPLIGATION FILED JULY 17, 1912.

Patented July 14, 1914.

Iii/verifier.-

% 7 fl L9 UNITED STATES.

DAVID E. THOMSON, or

CAMBRIDGE,' MA

PATENT OFFICE.

SSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR TO THE FORBES PORATION CF MASSACHUSETTS.

DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed July 17,

' Patented July id, 1914..

1812. Serial No. 709,874.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, DAVID F. THOMSON, a subject of the King of Great Britain, and a resident of Cambridge, in the county 0 Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Display Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates to display devices, such for example as are used for advertising purposes.

The character of the invention may be best understood by reference to the following description of an illustrative embodiment thereof shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure -1 is a perspective view of an illustrative display tion; and Fig. 2 is a plan of the device shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawing, the illustrative display device there shown comprises .upright members a and I; having portrayed thereon representations of human figures typified herein as a boy and a girl. To enable the upright members to stand in erect position they may be flexibly connected by a member 0.

The device may be of a plurality of separate members hinged together or may be conveniently died out of a sheet of cardboard or other suitable material, and scored on lines e and f to permit the upright figure bearing members to be folded in offset or tandem relation, so that one figure is in advance of the other. When thus folded, the device is in a self-sustaining erect position. The figures are portrayed as in postures for sustaining an article between them. in the illustrative device shown, the boy and girl are relatively positioned to bring the right shoulder of one in line with the left shoulder of the other to support the article their hands being raised on their shoulders,

the article.

to contribute to the support of For purposes of illustratio shown herein is in the form of an elongated carton g rectangular in shape, such as is commonly used for packaging crackers.

To contribute to the support of the article and prevent any possibility of its dislodgdevice embodying the inven-- lnent from the shoulders of thefigures, the upright members a. and b may be formed to prov de notches or seats h and i conforming to portions of the contour of the carton. When the carton is placed in these seats it will assist in maintaining the figures in their proper tandem relation. The uprights may be died or cut out to follow the exact. con tours of the figures portrayed or they may be of 'sufficient area to provide a scenic background for the figures. This background preferably is also portrayed on the sbtay member 0 connecting the upright memers.

While in the invention, on the uprights, it other figures might be employed Without departing from the Spirit and scope of the invention.

The device described when died from a sheet can be readily folded into compact form for shipment, and can be readily set up for display, counter, or any other place desired, it. being merelynecessary to fold the upright mem bers into tandem relation and place the carton in the seats h and z'. The device can be made of any size or material desired, and can support the actual article marketed or can be used to support a dummy simulating the appearance of the marketed article.

the illustrative embodiment of human figures are portraye ment of the invention without limiting the same thereto, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A device for displaying. an article of merchandise comprising upright members, one offset from and in advance of the other,

the article said members presenting figures in postures for supporting. a carton between them and having portions formed-to conform to the postures ofthe figures and provide seats for receiving and engagingthe sides of the carton; -,ing said members in said relation and having provision permitting the folding of said members into collapsed or extended positions.

2. A device for displaying an article of merchandise comprising a card scored on lines 6 and f to present tandem members a and b and an intermediate connecting member 0 permitting said members a and b in a store window, on a Having described one illustrative embod'n (l will be understood that i and means connecting and supportto be folded into the same plane or into positions in which one of said members is ofiset from said plane; and a carton supported two subscribing Witnesses.

by said members a and b, the latter having DAVID F. THOMSON. 5 figures thereon in postures for supporting Witnesses:

the carton and having portions formed to GEORGE A. TARBELL, conform to and support the carton. I F. E. GE'I'I'Y.

In testimony whereof, I have signed my name to this specification, in the presence of 

